Thropp v. Susq. Mut. F. Ins.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 288 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 84 March Term 1884, C. P. On February 6, 1884, the Susquehanna Mutual Fire Insurance Company brought an action in assumpsit against Joseph E. Thropp, to recover assessments on an interest-bearing premium note given by Thropp to the company, upon taking out a policy of insurance.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 288 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 84 March Term 1884, C. P. On February 6, 1884, the Susquehanna Mutual Fire Insurance Company brought an action in assumpsit against Joseph E. Thropp, to recover assessments on an interest-bearing premium note given by Thropp to the company, upon taking out a policy of insurance. On May 25, 1877, Thropp applied to the plaintiff, a mutual insurance company, for an insurance of $1,100 on certain of Ms property for the period of five years from that date, and in pursuance of his…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Mitchell :
The principal question of law raised in the present case was upon the validity of the assessments made by the defendant in error. The case was tried before the publication of the opinion of this court in Insurance Company v. Gackenbach, 115 Pa. 492, and the rulings of the learned judge below were at variance with the decision in that case. On an examination, however, of a correct copy of the by-law under which the assessments were made, it has appeared clearly that this court, speaking through our late brother Teunkey, was misled by an incorrect copy in the…
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- Susquehanna Mutual Fire Insurance v. Gackenbach & SeisloveSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1887
- Appeal of the Susquehanna Mutual Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1884
- Wilson v. Trumbull Mutual Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1852
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